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Disappearing Childhood
With signing.
A full report on yesterday's proceedings in the Commons, its committees and the Lords.
9.00 Lernexpress 2
9.15 Spain Means Business
9.45 Watch: Natural History - Spring
10.00 Look and Read: Earth Warp
10.20 Around Scotland: Landscapes
10.40 Over the Moon: Environment
10.55 Science Challenge
11.15 English Express: Language Skills
11.35 Seeing through Science
Stereo
12.00 English File: Texts in Time
12.30 pm Scene: Dear Life
Written by Sue Glover
1.00 Short Circuit
1.20-1.40 Children's BBC
with Chris Jarvis
(Stereo)
1.20 Charlie Chalk
1.35 Bump
1.40 English Time: Shock Horror
2.00 News Subtitled and Weather; followed by Words and Pictures
Note: schools' half-term repeats
Pre 20th century and contemporary texts are analysed for GCSE English. Three poems are unravelled - 'Not Waving but Drowning', 'My Last Duchess' & 'Sonnet'.
Highlights from the weekend's Open University programmes.
Including a profile of the British ice dance duo Torvill and Dean as they start their Olympic bid, ten years after they won gold in Sarajevo. Plus the luge doubles, the women's biathlon, the men's 1,000m speedskating and Nordic combined skijumping. Including at 3.00
News Subtitled and Weather
Regional News; Weather
Daily news quiz, presented by Martyn Lewis.
A Mentom production for BBCtv
What can you do when a relationship goes wrong?
Jenni Murray looks at what can go wrong and explores what could be done to put things right.
Word game with Paul Coia.
A look behind the scenes of BBCtv's acclaimed drama
Middlemarch, to see how the market town of Stamford was transformed by designers and scenic construction into the fictional Midlands town of the title. Key production staff talk about their work in the two years it took to produce the series.
Producer Edward Bames
Executive producer Angie Mason
Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean ,
Britain's great hopes for gold, return to the Olympic stage ten years after capturing the ice dance title with their mesmeric Bolero routine.
Alan Weeks and Barry Davies bring live coverage of the compulsory dances, which form the first part of the competition. The British duo were only second in the compulsories in the European Championships last month, trailing Russian pair
Maia Usova and Alexandr Zhulin , but they proved eventual winners after a closely fought contest. Oksana Gritschuk and Evgeni Platov also emerged as gold medal challengers. The original and free dances follow on Sunday and Monday.
There's also ice hockey - favourites Russia against
Germany, Finland v Austria - and other highlights of the seventh day in Lillehammer, from biathlon to luge doubles,
Nordic Combined ski jumping to speed skating, together with news, views and analysis on all the essential action in Norway as the first week of the 17th
Olympic Winter Games draws to a close.
Introduced by Steve Rider and Sue Barker.
AndrewDuncan interview with Torvill and Dean
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Winterfindsmost gardeners gazing at seed catalogues and longing for spring. But there are plenty of ways to make a winter garden look attractive as Geoff Hamilton , Liz Rigbey and Nick Wray explain in this, the first programme of a new series. A dried herbaceous borderisjustoneofthe imaginative ideas they suggest to brighten up a bleak landscape.
Later in the series there will be special features on foliage, plants for problem places, and gardening in confined spaces, as well as the annual visits to the flower shows at Chelsea and Hampton Court.
Next week the programme takes a short break to make way for the Winter Olympics, but it returns in a fortnight with the first of a regular look at organic gardening.
Executive producer Tony Laryea
Series producer Laurence Vulliamy
A Catalyst Television production for BBCtv
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A look at the background to the day's top news stories. Presented by Sue Cameron.
Seven awards will be announced at this annual event, now in its 37th year: Newspaper, Editor, Cartoonist, Scoop, Investigation and Columnist of the Year, plus the Gerald Barry Award for
Lifetime's Achievement in Journalism. Gerry Robinson , Chairman of Granada
Television, hosts the ceremony at London's Savoy Hotel.
Introduced by Russell Davies. Director ChrisMalone Producer Christine Ruth
A Granada production for BBCtv
The comedy game show where celebrities from politics, sport and show business take on the role of football managers in a game of imaginary teams and real players. This week, regular hosts Frank Skinner and David Baddiel are joined by singer Andrew Ridgeley and veteran comedian Peter Cook.
Producer Andy Jacobs
